Curb Quotes - Page 6

• Adrian suddenly made an abrupt turn onto a side street we'd nearly driven past. I jerked upright as he clipped the curb. "What are you doing? Think about your tires!

  Richelle Mead

  Past, Thinking, Sides

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.78, Penguin

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• You want to be a good person, don't you, Pat?' I nod. I cry. I do want to be a good person, I really do. 'I'm going to up your meds,' Dr. Patel tells me. 'You might feel a little sluggish, but it should help to curb your violent outbursts. You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

  Matthew Quick

  Desire, Drs, Needs

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.

  Daniel Handler

  Gutters, Glitter, Lasts

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.7, Egmont UK

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• Wayne was one of the worst drivers Finn had ever met. The bus nearly sideswiped two cars, then veered left and scraped its wheels against the curb, before smashing back down the roadway.

  Ridley Pearson

  Two, Car, Wheels

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• ...I'd have cheerfully thrown Her Majesty and her hundred pounds of baggage to the curb, but that wasn't mature. ~Cat on Annette

  Jeaniene Frost

  Majesty, Baggage, Pounds

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• I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows.

  Georgette Heyer

  Reflection, Wife, Desire

  Georgette Heyer (2010). “Devil's Cub”, p.277, Random House

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• I meet a third man he's an old man he trips in the street he falls and I help him up, walk him to the curb. He shakes my hand says keep the faith, young man. I ask him what he means, he says keep running and don't let them catch you.

  James Frey

  Running, Fall, Mean

  James Frey (2005). “My Friend Leonard”, p.83, Penguin

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• Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.

  Henry Rollins

  Gay, People, Personality

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• We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Sadness, Stories, Speak

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• Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

  Walter Scott

  Names, Tyrants, Nurse

  Walter Scott (2001). “Ivanhoe”, p.109, Classic Books Company

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• Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.

  Rachel Cohn

  Book, Eye, Hands

  Rachel Cohn (2011). “You Know Where to Find Me”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up.

  Steve Martin

  Design, Lines, Poor

  Steve Martin (2004). “The pleasure of my company”

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• Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

  Julia Kristeva

  Mourning, Suffering, Way

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• Despite the usual idea of a figure skater, I have no rhythm when it comes to even walking off the ice. I fall off curbs all the time.

  Johnny Weir

  Fall, Ice, Ideas

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• Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.

  Lee Trevino

  Funny, Golf, Turtles

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• You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Want, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Gun, Bystanders, Taxi Cabs

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• Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

  Dan Millman

  Future, Feet, Use

  Dan Millman (2004). “Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior”, p.70, H J Kramer

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• After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles...
  Nature runs on sunlight.
  Nature uses only the energy it needs.
  Nature fits form to function.
  Nature recycles everything.
  Nature rewards cooperation.
  Nature banks on diversity.
  Nature demands local expertise.
  Nature curbs excesses from within.
  Nature taps the power of limits.

  Janine Benyus

  Running, Nature, Law

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• You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.

  Christopher Walken

  Fall, Thinking, People

  "Christopher Walken Offered Natalie Wood Death Theory in Past Interview" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

  Herbert Spencer

  Teacher, Children, Character

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.201

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• Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

  Anna Quindlen

  Summer, Distance, Lying

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.25, Random House

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• By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses of my old neighborhood. I shielded my eyes. This being early October, there were already piles of leaves pushed against the curb—more leaves than I remembered from my autumns here—andless open space in the sky. I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

  Mitch Albom

  Morning, Memories, Eye

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services or curb crime

  Connie Mulder

  Soccer, Government, Names

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• If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Children, Suffering, Climate

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